Definition of "the tempter" []

• (Judeo-Christian and Islamic religions) chief spirit of evil and adversary of God; tempter of mankind; master of Hell (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "The great beauty of it is the contrast between the two characters of the tempter and Our Saviour, the artful sophistry, and specious insinuations of the one, refuted by the strong sense, and manly eloquence of the other. '"
• "I was much about that time tempted to content myself by receiving some false opinion; as, that there should be no such thing as a day of judgment; that we should not rise again; and that sin was no such grievous thing: the tempter suggesting thus: FOR IF THESE THINGS SHOULD INDEED BE TRUE, YET TO BELIEVE OTHERWISE WOULD YIELD YOU EASE FOR THE PRESENT."
• "But yet all the things of God were kept out of my sight, and still the tempter followed me with, BUT WHITHER MUST YOU GO WHEN YOU DIE?"